A British woman has admitted that she killed her father, buried his body in his backyard and kept her secret for 12 years.The Washington Post reports Barbara Coombes of Manchester, England, spotted a box on her father’s dining room table. When she opened it, she was shocked by its disgusting contents. Coombes found the box filled with pornographic images of children, including herself. The images reportedly reminded Coombes of her abusive childhood, where her father allegedly used her as a sex slave, The Guardian reports. After seeing the pictures, Coombes says she went into a daze. "I could feel a black cloud appearing over me,” Coombes said in court this week, according to the Manchester Evening News. “In a haze of disgust and disbelief, I picked up a shovel I had been gardening with and walked into the living room where my father was standing.” Coombes struck her father, Kenneth Coombes, in the back of the head. She hit him one more time while he lay on the floor, then cut his throat with the sharp blade of the shovel. The Post reports Coombes wrapped her father’s body in a rug and buried it the garden. For 12 years, Coombes kept the secret about what happened to her father to herself. Even close family members were reportedly told her father died from a heart condition. Coombes, who confessed to the crime this past January, was sentenced Wednesday to serve nine years in prison for manslaughter. According to the Times of London, the judge said while he believed the years of abuse took a toll on Coombes' life, he said a “history of abuse may explain but not justify the taking of life.”

A British woman has admitted that she killed her father, buried his body in his backyard and kept her secret for 12 years.

The Washington Post reports Barbara Coombes of Manchester, England, spotted a box on her father’s dining room table. When she opened it, she was shocked by its disgusting contents. Coombes found the box filled with pornographic images of children, including herself.

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The images reportedly reminded Coombes of her abusive childhood, where her father allegedly used her as a sex slave, The Guardian reports.

After seeing the pictures, Coombes says she went into a daze.

"I could feel a black cloud appearing over me,” Coombes said in court this week, according to the Manchester Evening News. “In a haze of disgust and disbelief, I picked up a shovel I had been gardening with and walked into the living room where my father was standing.”

Coombes struck her father, Kenneth Coombes, in the back of the head. She hit him one more time while he lay on the floor, then cut his throat with the sharp blade of the shovel. The Post reports Coombes wrapped her father’s body in a rug and buried it the garden.

For 12 years, Coombes kept the secret about what happened to her father to herself. Even close family members were reportedly told her father died from a heart condition.

Coombes, who confessed to the crime this past January, was sentenced Wednesday to serve nine years in prison for manslaughter.

According to the Times of London, the judge said while he believed the years of abuse took a toll on Coombes' life, he said a “history of abuse may explain but not justify the taking of life.”